classics in their own right in Turkey. Extract of Poem Oyunbozan bir akşamın altında, Elinde bir yoyo gibi benliğin, Senden damlara, damlardan geriye Bir kadeh tutuştururlar eline derken. References External links Selected poems in English A short biography Hayatı Ve Şiirleri Can Yücel Şiirleri - Poems Şiirleri - Poems 1926 births 1999 deaths Turkish male poets Turkish former Muslims Turkish atheism activists Turkish Marxists Turkish communists Writers from Istanbul Turkish translators Ankara University alumni Alumni of the University of Cambridge 20th-century translators 20th-century Turkish poets Deaths from throat cancer Deaths from cancer in Turkey